Marlborough rail: Kekerangu Clarence, South Island, New Zealand
By the Seagnoid on 08-Jul-17. Waypoint GC77DVJ

TFTC

Nice spot interesting hide thanks

Fun hide thanks could be tricky

Another stop to find a Marlborough rail cache. I was puzzled by the spelling and I thought it was unlikely the cache owner would have made an error. All is explained in the cache description.Some well meaning finder (or finders) had placed large rocks around the cache. In attempting to conceal it, the opposite effect was the result which I am sure the cache owner had in mind when he placed the cache. I left one rock close by because I think that one did belong but I relocated the other three a few metres away.

A cool campground here, I must stay next time I'm passing this way. Lovely sunny spot today, decided to park up and have lunch beside the GZ after I'd found the cache, before continuing north, TFTC

Thanks for the nice easy cache.

Trouve ! / Found it ! 5255me cache trouve.Merci the Seagnoid pour la cache 5255th cache found.Thank you the Seagnoid for the cache

Found on this beautiful day Great hide cache all good Thank you for the cache

Driving down to Kaikoura for the weekend and collecting as many smileys as I can. Last time I tried this I was in the wrong side of the tracks. No problems today. Cache and log all fine. Thanks

Tftc, would never have known the old structure was here, driven past many times

Camping nearby so went walking for caches Beautiful views! TFTC.

Easy one in a beautiful campground. Thx.

Did not see a cockroach TFTC

Ja

Hier auf dem Campingplatz bernachtet und am Morgen den Cache gesucht. Kleiner Spaziergang und dann gefunden. Danke fr den Cache.

On our way up to Picton as we were passing this spot, I looked over and said to Chocochunk: I'd like to stay there one day. On our way back to CHC, we stopped and got this cache. This allowed us a chance to walk around and check out the site. Pretty cool. Can't wait to get back here to stay a night or two.

We are away for a night in the brand new caravan. Testing out everything. We have driven over the nearby bridge so many times - looking down at the camper vans and caravans thinking what a great place to camp beside the sea.After dinner we wandered up to GZ - hoping for a muggle free find. But no -we had to play the stealth game and wait.I did know what type of cache I was looking for so that did make it a tad easier.TFTC theseagnoid

Down south from Tauranga. On a roadie and now time to head home. Parked up for a couple of nights at this awesome place and time to get a couple more smiles. Great cache, was reluctant at first. Fp from me. I am logging using the Cachly app template so please excuse generic logging along the way. Its just my way of keeping track, but I do genuinely thank each and every one of you cache owners for taking the time and energy to place these caches. Many Thanks for bringing me here. Cheers.

A good find

Found it with some struggle

Nice spot. Unfortunately rainy day. Thank you! Had no pen with me so I took a picture if necessary

Quick find. Have done seberal of these. TFTC.

Mt first stop was along the highway, but then I doubled back and got much closer to GZ. I was taken ion by the 'red' herring not too far away from the real one. TFTC.

Nice easy find. Tftc

Have been waiting for campers to leave to get this one. Extremely busy this long weekend. TFTC

I love the railway series. Thank you the Seagnoid. This is another of your typical pattern and obvious if you know what to look for. Interesting to see this is now a formal camping ground and busy at midday.
TFTC

No sign of it where the GPS indicated it should be. A very popular camping area.

Easy to find

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Quick find here. Towing a big moving trailer I parked at the store and walked in. Only while walking and reading the description did I find you can drive to the cache but I think my big orange trailer would have drawn attention to me as many campers were out having breakfast. A walker did not raise a second glance.
Thanks for the cache, the Seagnoid
#3979

Nice spot to stop for lunch. Tftc

We have come away in motorhome with our cat Coco. Staying the night here so off to explore. Never knew what this was so cool to have a cache and learn about this. Thanks for the cache Seagnoid.

Great find. Thanks

Quick easy find, all in good order. On a road trip around South Island. This is our first stop. Tftc.

After trying for this one a year ago from the other side of the rails decided to stop for a coffee and try from the right side of the tracks. Another seganoid cache ticked off. Tftc

Cool

Arrived at this underrated camping site at the end of yesterday, sitting on 4999 found caches. I deliberately left this one to this morning. It was less than 30m from my overnight spot. Headed to it first thing today and found it quickly. Superb part of the country, a memorable place to notch up my 5000th find! TFTC.

Bit late logging, sorry! Fast find, interesting area, thanks Seagnoid

Nice found

Quick ride through the caravan park, quick and grab

Another nice easy find once we got to the right side of the tracks.

Fantastic
TFTC

Am travelling South in my motorhome, so did not look out of place driving through the campground to park within 10m of the cache for a quick find.

Full log to come

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After parking the snail shell up in Kaikoura it was time to visit all those caches I saw on the way south and couldn't stop at.

Another station visited.

Out: TBs

Cheers for the cache.

Chose our camp site then grabbed this 30m away…perfect…thanks

Sorry no pen today. Great hiding spot.

Another rail one I like

In the motor camp area isn't that a bit different.

Lovely view

Found

Found with Juju54 nice area amazing beach - TFTC

Love these ones very clever! Found with Campmotherandken TFTC

Second attempt at this one. Last time we were on the other side of the tracks. Today, got it right. Time for first lunch and an easy find. Dropped a TB too.

On our way to Christchurch, quick find while Mrs Popmac ordering lunch. Thanks the Seagnoid for the cache.

A nice quick find here. Plenty of campers but none near the cache. TFTC.

Great history around here, we are learning lots thanks

Enjoying the consistency of these.

Found easily during a disappointing fishing trip

Back on the Mainland, caching south with the wagging tails, in Van.
Happy New Year, and happy caching TFTC

Thanks the Seagnoid for putting out this cache for woolwood9 and I to find!
SL **tm/ww NZ** (may just be a black smudge on wet or plastic logs)
*We soon had another good cache located, now onto the next one!*

Nice to be away on another geocaching trip with tmann421, travelling to a few places in the upper South Island.
All logs signed tm/ww NZ
TFTC

I stopped here to claim another of the Marlborough rail caches on my way south - I have paused at The Store several times but had no idea that this camping spite was here.
Thanks for this cache, the Seagnoid. Quick find.

(# 5978). Day 2 of my South Island odyssey. Today is getting caches from Blenheim to Kaikoura. The weather was decidedly average with mainly light drizzle interrupted by heavy rain. It's the first time I have driven along the coast since the earthquake. I can now appreciate the carnage that occurred. Even how much the seabed rose around Kaikoura. A quick find. Everything in order. TFTC

We arrived in the dark for a nights stopover and in the Morning went looking for this one and found it only a few meters from our Caravan..TFTC

At this beautiful place we stayed for a night.
Wonderful
Thanks

Beautiful place to stay with motorhome. Found On the beach side of railway lines

This one is just 30m from our caravan while parked up for the weekend. The area is being converted into a camping spot, and access will soon be restricted to walking or those staying. Cheers for the history.

Biwer original sends Greetings from Germany and thanks for the Cache.

20 January 2020 10:13. Another great one in this series. Quickly found, and in great condition, tftc

Nice one fun TFTC

.Hey Ive been here when this was installed and again when it got smashed up by a mower. Alls good today and finally get this tagged. Cheers.

Toby, The Seagnoid and I are off exploring to Kaikoura again today. Its an easy day of mostly P&Gs as TS is the walking wounded at the moment, and not walking much, but can play navigator on this trip. So lets go! A great day with many stops on the way we usually drive past to greener pastures for TS.

If you found one, you'll gonna see em from a distance. TFTC

Another quick find, there were some campers here enjoying the evening so the car became the geoshield and all good. TFTC tS.

Driving to Christchurch to catch up with family this weekend, a long one for us Malburians. A few caches on the drive down then while the traffic is light and the light is good.

Our first railway geocache-looking forward to looking for more on our travels!!

TFTC and the great history lesson.

Heading south and thought this was going to be a drive by until we saw an uncrossable fence in the way. We could see the old platform so drove on the short distance to Kekerengu Store and into the car parking area. Then a pleasant short walk to the cache. Enjoying finding this quality series of Marlborough rail caches, thanks Seagnoid. A favourite added for this one and your series. Our parking spot was a good place to have a picnic lunch too.

Another Marlborough rail find, will have to another road trip to find the ones north of here. TFTC

It looked like it was supposed to be there. TFTC

We are in our 2nd week of our NZ motorhoming adventure. We have loved our stays at Collingwood, Totaranui Abel Tasman NP, French Pass & Havelock. We spent today travelling and sight seeing enjoying the beautiful scenery on our way to Kaikoura and staying the night here by the beach.

Thank you for the quality cache.

I had originally planned a 2 day overnight caching road trip but some family commitments intervened which shortened my plan to a 1 (long) day road trip instead. I aimed for the east coast south of Blenheim and went for it. Although the weather on the day started out a bit grim and grey, it brightened up as the day wore on and I had a great time finding 40+ caches along the way. The road to the cache seems to be closed. This might be a seasonal thing? It was a short walk from the car park below the store to the cache. Hidden in plain sight indeed. TFTC, Biggles.

Tftc

Tftc beautiful spot

Having found a few of Seagnoids Rail caches identified the cache easily. TFTC

Found on 25/01/2019.

I was up at the top of the South Island competing in the South Island Orienteering Champs. This gave me some time to grab some caches on the way there and back. It was great fun to explore a new part of the coutntry.

TFTC the Seagnoid

On the final leg of my road trip on the way home! A few more fitted into the day! One fence to climb through but I could have gone around... TFTC!!

Out and about on a road trip from Papamoa to Dunedin. No problem with the find. Merry Christmas and TFTC.

Ding ding. All aboard. Another quick one

Found at 12:21 - #7966 - on a 5 week trip in New Zealand

TFTC

The first of this series I found, nice work on the placement. Thanks for the history lesson too. Cheers

This is our last Marlborough rail cache for today. It was an ideal stop to have our morning coffee. Had to out wait a muggle who was slowly walking along the road.
+ a marble, - nothing.

Our last few days on holiday, enjoying the sun, the caches.

Thanks to all the cache hiders.

TFTCs

Another easy find. Makes our trip interesting. TFTC

Heading South for a break and a bit of Geocaching. Grabbing a few on the way to Kaikoura.
Quick find at GZ, I like the hide, it should stay dry.
Signed log, TFTC the Seagnoid.

Found it!!! Pit stop on the way down south. Thanks for the awesome spot

Being a relief teacher with a campervan and a supportive family, I decided it was time to make use of the school holidays. So I am off to Malborough for a few days.
After getting out of the campervan I realised where I needed to be. No trains today.
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Thanks. the Seagnoid for putting in the effort to hide this geocache. This was find for me.

Last time we were here, you could drive right to the cache location, but a fence across the road now prevents that, so it was a walk in the strong wind, to a quick easy find of a nicely hidden cache. More interesting history, and a massive surf thundering in nearby. TFTC

On our way to Kaikoura for the weekend.
We decided to visit a few of the bygone railway stations on the way.
An enjoyable series, thank you.
TFTC

Coordinates changed from:
S 41° 59.966 E 174° 0.678

Coordinates changed to:
S 41° 59.968 E 174° 0.685

Distance from original: 34.1 feet or 10.4 meters.

Cache moved, new-fangled lawnmower avoidance technology added. Pathtag added. Enjoy!

#15334. We were on our way south, and took advantage of a rail crossing very near to GZ. This was the second damaged cache in this series we found today. Damage here was worse, as the inner container had also lost its lid. Given that, the cache contents were surprisingly dry, and in good shape. TFTC.